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In high-altitude ecosystems, attacks by snow leopards on livestock often occur at night in pastoralist settlements. However, the lack of means for herders to protect their livestock often leads to cases of snow leopards preying on them.

The Leopard Conservation Foundation NGO has been implementing multifaceted community-based conservation programs since 1999, one of which is a community-based monitoring and inspection program using the SMART program.

A long-term ecological research program for snow leopards has been implemented in the Tost Mountains of Gurvantes soum, Umnugovi aimag, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, the US-based Snow Leopard Trust, and other domestic and international organizations since 2008.

The Livestock Risk Fund is a program that aims to protect the livelihoods of herders and support sustainable solutions to coexist in harmony with nature by compensating for livestock losses caused by snow leopards and wolves. The program is implemented under the direct supervision of the Leopard Center for Livestock Conservation.

The Leopard Enterprise Program has been implemented since 1997 to involve local communities in the conservation of the world's rare snow leopard. The program aims to increase the household income of leopard-range herders living far from markets, help them find markets for small handicrafts made from their animal products, and thereby provide herders with an opportunity to indirectly compensate for the losses of livestock killed by leopards.

Since 2007, the Leopard Conservation Foundation has been implementing programs aimed at reducing human-leopard conflict by protecting the leopard and its prey and supporting livelihoods among herders living in areas where the globally endangered snow leopard is found.

A children's summer camp called Eco-Tourism, which aims to introduce middle school students to the natural environment in areas with snow leopards, has been operating for the past 10 years, starting in 2013, with the support of the IHS Research Center in the Tost Tosonbumbyn Nuruunu Nature Reserve, Gurvantes soum, Umnugovi aimag.

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75-80% of the snow leopard's habitat in Mongolia is outside of specially protected areas. Therefore, various threats and pressures are arising in this region, affecting the population and habitat of snow leopards and ungulates.